Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-06

The receipts from the rental of property in New York used for the sale of liquors
 amounts to not less than $5, 100000 year. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars | is, to be sure, more than one hundred and | seventy five thousand dollars, but can MT. Sperry do for the business interests of the 1 city what the Housatonic Valley company | can and will?
 Senator German, of Maryland, is not
 crushed by the disapproval of the Civil Ser vice commission. He gives list of thirty | eight friends of his appointed to various | offices, ''because of their efficient party ser | aice." ''In other words" he adds, Heading | and representative party men were removed because they were Republicans, and leading | and active Democrats were appointed In their | places"
 The decision of the Supreme court of the United States in the suit brought by certain
 national banks against the tax officers of the city of New York is very important one. It declares that the system of taxation in eff feet in the State of New York does not ere ate discrimination between the taxes i'm posed for local purposes upon national bank shares and similar taxes imposed on the oth- | CT moneyed capital of individual taxpayers, such as shares in certain life insurance com
 panies, in trust companies and the money in
 savings banks. The contention of thirtyfve
 national banks was that the law did, in fact,
 discriminate against them by the exceptions
 mentioned. The decision will benefit the
 treasury of the city of New York by about $3,O0O,0O
 The Atlanta Constitution thinks it possi- ble that some of the southern statesmen didn't know when they voted for the inter State commerce bill that they were re-enact- ing part of the late Senator Summers civil rights bill, to which they strenuously ob- jected while it was pending. The provision referred to is this: It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions
 of this act to make or give any undue or un-
 reasonable preference or advant tage to any
 particular person, company, firm, corpora tion or locality, or any particular description of traffic in any respect whatsoever, or to subject any person, company, firm, corpora tion or locality, or any particular description of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.
 The new schedule of through freight rates from California has convinced many of the 1 inhabitants of that State that the inter State commerce act isn't much of law. AL | cohol and spirits, of which the State is said
 to import all it uses, has been raised from l 50 cents to $3 35 per hundred pounds. The stuff is too volatile for long voyages in
 wood, and if it is sent around it will have to | be stored in tins. Last years wool crop of
 that State was 40, ,000, ,000 pounds, Of which
 34, ,OOO, 900 pounds were shipped East. The freight rate mas been raised from 6211a cents to s4.50 per hundred, sufficient to ex- clude the State entirely from the market.
 Redwood. in which trade with the East was
 rapidly growing up, and sugar are also put
 down in the schedules at proportionately in-
 creased rates.
 An English scientific journal enumerates l the following among the inventions which
 are specially needed st the present time:
 Macaroni machinery, good red lead pencils, | typewriters that will work on ccount books
 and record books, indelible stamp cancelling ink, practical car starter, 8 good railway
 car ventilator, better horse shoes, locomo-
 tive headlights, instrument for measur-
 ing the velocity of wind currents, apparatus
 for measuring the depth of the sea without
 sounding by line, piano lid hinge which
 shall be flush on the outside, good fluid ink
 for draughtsmen, good metallic railroad
 tie, an effective cutoff for locomotive, a
 method of allowing copper and iron, and a
 moulding material for iron and brass casting
 capable of giving mould that can be used
 over and over again.
 Mr. R. F. Trevelliek, the general lecturer
 of the Knights of Labor for North America,
 advocates the formation of penal colony in Alaska. He does not believe it possible to